The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: What we have learned

Abstract

The varied topics presented in these symposium proceedings represent the diverse nature of the Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project (BEMRP). Separated into six sections, the papers cover the different themes researched by BEMRP collaborators as well as brief overviews of five other ecosystem management projects. The sections are: Understanding the Ecosystem, Its Parts and Processes; Understanding the People and Their Relationship to the Ecosystem; Implementation for Specific Landscape Areas; Overviews of Other Ecosystem Management Research Projects in the West; Fieldtrip Abstracts; and Poster Session Abstracts. The papers presented here are from a symposium held in order to summarize research conducted under the first five-year charter for BEMRP. The symposium was held 1999 May 18-20 in Missoula, Montana for interested public, land managers, and researchers.

Titles contained within The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: What we have learned

• The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: How did it happen?
• Keynote address: sustaining people and ecosystems in the 21st Century
• Comparing historic and modern forests on the Bitterroot Front
• Ecosystem-based management at lower elevations
• Silvicultural treatments
• Fire applications in ecosystem management
• Soils and nutrient considerations
• Wildlife habitat considerations
• Associated riparian communities
• Restoration of native plant communities infested by invasive weeds -- Sawmill Creek Research Natural Area
• Ecosystem-based management in the lodgepole pine zone
• Ecosystem-based management in the whitebark pine zone
• Presence/absence as a metric for monitoring vertebrate populations
• Small mammals of the Bitterroot National Forest: Ecological significance and guidelines for management
• The effect of time period on point count methodology for monitoring breeding birds
• Overview of forest carnivore survey efforts in the Bitterroot Mountains
• Agencies within communities, communities within ecosystems
• Making "stuff" happen through public participation and consensus building
• Behavioral and cognitive evaluation of FireWorks education trunk
• Synergy between ecological needs and economic aspects of ecosystem restoration
• Social science and the Bitterroot National Forest: A synthesis
• Stevensville West Central Study
• Developing an ecosystem diversity framework for landscape assessment
• Sequential use of simulation and optimization in analysis and planning
• Achieving ecosystem management in the Borderlands of the Southwestern United States through coordinated research/management partnerships
• Great Basin Research and Management Project: Restoring and maintaining riparian ecosystem integrity
• Research of the Rio Grande Ecosystem Management Program
• The Colorado Front Range Ecosystem Management Research Project: Accomplishments to date
• Sustaining the land, people, and economy of the Blue Mountains: The Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute

Citation

Smith, Helen Y. 2000. The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: What we have learned. Proc. RMRS-P-17. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 154 p.